Bidar, Jan. 31 -- A transformer blast on the side of a highway in Bidar district critically injured several people, including school children, on Sunday.

Shivayogi Bali, surgeon at BIMS Hospital, elaborated that the incident critically injured 18-year-old Anwar and 65-year-old Jabbar. The victims suffered head and eye injuries along with crush injuries on limbs.

"The transformer, which is there on the side of the highway in the Bidar district, has been blasted. So, due to that, five people got injured. The place is called Molakera village, in Humnabad Taluk. Two people are severely injured. 18-year-old Anwar got a crush injury to the foot and an eyeball injury with a left-hand crush injury. So along with that, he has also got a head inj...